Four Christmases

Here's a Christmas card picture that I forgot to post from the previous photo shoot post...

Two weekends before Christmas, we started our partying at my parents' annual Christmas open house.  About 90 of their friends and family stopped in for a chance to catch up from the past year.  It's always a pretty extravagant event.

Kyri at the Chocolate Fountain
(...where she spent most of the night!)

Aubry and Aunt Sherry having fun

Us with Kyle's parents (and the giant Santa)

Cutie Tessa showing off her "parkly" red shoes

Pretty Morgyn and all her fans

We finally rounded up the kids for a family shot!

Grandpa and Kyle introducing Tessa to some chocolate fountain treats

Kyri and Pop putting on a dance show

Smooches from Aunt Sherry

And a very sleepy Tessa with her Daddy

The next weekend, we got together with Kyle's family at Owen and Donna's for an early Christmas celebration.

We had a tasty dinner.

The girls played a lot of Ring Around the Rosie.

Then we tried to get a photo, but someone was mad that we made her stop playing "Rosie".

So our little defiant one refused to sit with the rest of the group, but once we let her down, she posed with a big cheesy smile.  Ughh!

Lillian and Gwyneth with Grandma and Grandpa

Present time... G and L with their new puppies

Dr. Charlie fixing up this puppy

We were safe with these emergency workers at the party.

Construction Worker Lillian

Construction Worker Gwyneth

Christmas Eve:  We always celebrate Christmas Eve with Laurel's side of the family.  This year Kyle's cousin, Jessica, and her husband hosted.

An attempt to get a nice group shot of all five little ones...

 We can count on the two biggest cousins for a smile!

 Jessica and Carl's piano was a big hit!

Present time!

Kyri and Charlie got matching fairy princess dresses and flew around the living room for a while.

 Kyri enjoyed our white elephant gift!

And Bobbi enjoyed her white elephant gifts, too!  

Tessa helped Grandma warm up for Christmas carols.

Kyri talked about singing carols all day, and she even had Rudolph memorized for the tradition....but she didn't quite make it...  : (  We sang without her!

Christmas Day:  We started with presents from Santa, had a tasty quiche and then headed to church.

She was so excited to look in her stocking to see what Santa left her!

Tess was excited that Santa brought her a princess pillow so she had to try it out right away!

Around lunchtime, we headed out to my parents' house for the Knutson Christmas celebration.

As soon as we got there, Tessa found this guy waiting for her!

She also got a new baby, which she immediately began to care for.

 The girls opening their gifts

Morgyn and Grady got their own chairs.  Grady prefers to climb on it!

Here's Kyri showing off her her new Disney lanyard with pins from all the times she's gone there.  We'll keep adding to it!

They love these animals that they can bounce on.

After dinner, we got all the supplies out to make our own gingerbread houses.

These two worked really well together on their house.

Although, I think Tess ate more than she decorated!

Kailey made a cool log cabin.

And Aubry took her time to make a very detailed roof for Kailey.

So proud of their work!

Even Morgyn got in on the action!

We had such a fun couple of days this Christmas season with all of our families!